Under one in six of this year’s nearly 1,900 shootings has led to a suspect in custody. That staggering number of unsolved cases is nearly 40 percent higher than in all of 2015, says the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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The attack at a Sacramento mall appeared to be targeted. Gun assaults and homicides have increased in the California capital during the pandemic.
The suspect was described as a 15-year-old Hispanic. Four innocent bystanders were among those who received non-life-threatening injuries during the shooting.
The two people who died were 2019 high school graduates who were innocent bystanders at a house party that grew out of control.
Jake Gardner, the white Omaha bar owner who shot and killed a 22-year-old Black man during a May protest, was indicted five days ago. His attorney said the shooting was “a clear case of self-defense.”
The shooting of two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies prompted a manhunt for the shooter, reaction from the president and protests outside the hospital where the wounded deputies were being treated.
More than 320 people have been killed and 1,600 injured in mass shootings so far in 2020, says the Gun Violence Archive. Nearly 50 percent of incidents took place in majority-Black census tracts.
White supremacist Brenton Tarrant killed 51 worshipers at two mosques last year. The sentence was the first-ever in New Zealand.
Three police officers were shot and a man remained barricaded inside a home with three of his family members in a suburb of Austin. The suspect has “mental health issues,” the police chief said.
The Justice Department named its surge of federal agents into violence-torn cities Operation Legend, for the 4-year-old Kansas City boy slain by a stray bullet in June. But it was local detective work that led to an arrest in the case.